L’usage de la poésie haïku en psycho-oncologie

International audienceAbstract Aim: Our study aims to describe the discourseeffects of specific and structured protocol focused on severalhaiku poems about one patient, who have experienced cancer.Procedure: The protocol consists of 4 steps: a preliminaryexploratory interview, fifteen haiku proposed without a partof the poem (a creative writing filled in by the patient), a freeform haiku composed by the patient, and finally, a finalinterview.Clinical case: A man, D., aged 25, had tumor.Result: Using this protocol, we showed discourse variationson the illness before and after the experience of poetrywriting, by Tropes V8.4 software.Conclusion: Haiku poetry can be a useful tool in the contextof supportive interventions or as preparatory work for engagementin psychotherapeutic intervention. We believe thatthe formal structure of haikus can create conditions for aspecific poetic work composed of: poetic evocation, synthesis,and mapping of the most intimate experiences in oncologyenvironment.Résumé Objectif : Cette étude qualitative et exploratoirevise à décrire les effets d’un protocole poétique centré surles haïkus en psycho-oncologie sur l’approche de la maladiechez un patient atteint de cancer.Matériel et méthodes : Il s’agit d’un protocole d’écriturepoétique composé de quatre étapes : un entretien préliminaire,la proposition de 15 haïkus (sans le vers du milieu)tirés de grands auteurs japonais, la réalisation d’un poèmecomposé librement par deux patients atteints de cancer, unentretien final sur l’expérience de l’écriture poétique.Cas clinique : Un homme, M. D., âgé de 25 ans, qui est entraitement pour un cancer.Résultats : Nous montrons les variations discursives utiliséesavant et après l’expérience de l’écriture poétique, à travers lelogiciel Tropes V8.4.Conclusion : Le travail poétique avec le haïku peut être unoutil utile, dans un contexte de support clinique en institutionou comme préparation à un travail de psychothérapie. Nouspensons que la structure formelle des haïkus peut inviter à untravail poétique spécifique : évocation poétique, synthèse etschématisation des vécus plus intimes en milieu oncologique

Corporeal Cartography: The Body as a Map of Place-Based Relationships

The drama Heroes and Saints and film Fresh Kill respond to local and global environmental justice issues and generate a corporeal cartography that maps the relationships between place and the body through embodied memory, desire, movement and machine. These bodily maps make environmental injustice visible and intervene to form an alternant future. The texts thus contribute to a canon of activist-oriented literature and participate in a conversation about the agential capacity of literature to expose injustice and activate an intervention. Heroes and Saints and Fresh Kill pose an interest in cartography and the body, and I draw on the theory of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to frame the body as a map of place-based relationships. Deleuzian theory posits the map as that which can form rhizomatic connections on a singular plane, and the body functions like a map. Queerness, gender and race shape embodied experience in my primary texts, and this positionality informs the bodily map. Corporeal cartography, then, builds connections and interruptions to generate becomings that can change the future

Corporeal Cartography: The Body as a Map of Place-Based Relationships

The drama Heroes and Saints and film Fresh Kill respond to local and global environmental justice issues and generate a corporeal cartography that maps the relationships between place and the body through embodied memory, desire, movement and machine. These bodily maps make environmental injustice visible and intervene to form an alternant future. The texts thus contribute to a canon of activist-oriented literature and participate in a conversation about the agential capacity of literature to expose injustice and activate an intervention. Heroes and Saints and Fresh Kill pose an interest in cartography and the body, and I draw on the theory of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to frame the body as a map of place-based relationships. Deleuzian theory posits the map as that which can form rhizomatic connections on a singular plane, and the body functions like a map. Queerness, gender and race shape embodied experience in my primary texts, and this positionality informs the bodily map. Corporeal cartography, then, builds connections and interruptions to generate becomings that can change the future